Blessed Are the Children: Three Centuries of Betrayal

These six locations mark the geography of childhood suffering across Britain and France: from Speenhamland where poor relief counted children like livestock to Fulbourn where the last climbing boy died, from Huskar Colliery's flooded mines to Parliament's Factory Acts that legalized exploitation, from the Somme's killing fields to Trafalgar Square's victory celebrations that forgot the broken boys. Each site reveals how pastoral villages, government buildings, and celebrated landmarks concealed systematic abuse of the young.